Sirius Laughing

[justcarol67]

No: HPFGUIDX 113562

Marianne wrote:
> <snip> Maybe Sirius was not laughing all that madly. 
> We've only heard about this from people like Fudge, who might have 
> built up the story of the capture of Voldy's Pure Evil Right-Hand Man 
> because it makes him, Fudge, look brave and daring.  Or, to give 
> Fudge the benefit of the doubt, maybe Sirius did vent with a few 
> howls of disbelief, grief, or whatever, and, through the passage of 
> time, that has been enlarged into great gales of insane cackling.

Carol:
I'm almost certain that the laugh was real, that Fudge heard it, and
that it more than anything else convinced him that Sirius was insane.
Compare his laugh in the Shrieking Shack after Pettigrew accuses him
of having dark powers that enabled him to escape Azkaban:

"Black started to laugh, a horrible, mirthless laugh that filled the
whole room" 368).

I think it was the same laugh that convinced Fudge and everyone else
who heard it, including the squad of Hit Wizards who subdued him, that
Black was a homicidal maniac.

Carol